This one-year course provides fundamentals of communication skills including reading, writing, speaking, and listening using Nevada Academic Content Standards. It covers contemporary works, classical literature, and literary nonfiction with a focus on argument, informative, and narrative writing.

Designed for highly motivated students with strong compositional and critical thinking demands. Focuses on reading comprehension, concise writing, grammar, fluency, and formal vocabulary. Includes unit projects, research, and various literary genres.

Continues development of communication skills through close reading of contemporary works, classical literature, and literary nonfiction. Includes short and long-term writing assignments in argument, informative, and narrative genres.

Designed for highly motivated students focusing on reading, writing, speaking, listening, research, and vocabulary. Students read five literary forms: short story, autobiography, novel, drama, and poetry.

Aligned with NVACS to expand skills for college and career readiness. Covers contemporary works, seminal U.S. documents, American literature classics, and literary nonfiction. Focuses on complex texts and various writing genres.

Culmination of skills for college and career readiness, integrating Early College English outcomes. Focuses on British and world authors, college-level writing, and manipulating language for craft.

Students read challenging literary and informational texts to analyze details and author's purpose. Focuses on the writing process including planning, revising, and editing for specific audiences.

Focuses on reading, writing, and understanding poetic forms and techniques. Designed for both experienced and novice poets to explore poetic experience as timeless and universal.

Explores current social and scientific problems (population growth, genetic engineering, space travel) as reflected in novels and short stories set in the future.

Explores classical myths and legends of Greek and Roman mythology, and may include Norse, Arthurian, and other cultures. Compares changes in mythology with historical and cultural changes.

Designed to develop appreciation of William Shakespeare's works, including sonnets, comedies, tragedies, and history plays. Focuses on his unique use of the English language.

Stresses visual and verbal literacy, teaching students to understand and appreciate films as literature. Includes critical reading of contemporary works and classical literature.